Zak Stein - Why The Schooling System is Broken & The Future of Education

Zak Stein is a writer, educator, and futurist working to bring greater sanity and justice to education. He studied religion and philosophy at Hampshire College before completing his doctorate in educational neuroscience, human development, and educational philosophy at Harvard. He is the co-founder of Lectica Inc — a nonprofit dedicated to transforming standardized testing across K-12, higher education, and business — and the author of "Education in a Time Between Worlds," a powerful exploration of the future of schools, technology, and society.In this conversation, we explore what the crisis of education actually is and how it connects to the broader crises of our time, the deep problems with today's dominant schooling system and why it is failing students, and what a genuine future of education could look like beyond the current institutional model.We also get into the nature of teacherly authority — organic versus institutionalized — pathways for homeschooling and educational hub networks, the problem of reducing education to a commodity, and why the global measurement crisis reveals something profound about what we value and what we've lost.We close with one of the most important insights of the conversation — that most of reality simply cannot be measured, and what that means for how we educate the next generation.A wide-ranging and urgent conversation for anyone who cares about the future of learning, human development, and civilization.🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES 🔗Zak's personal site Education in a Time Between Worlds — in-depth book summary The Master and His Emissary — Iain McGilchrist The Ascent of Humanity — Charles Eisenstein🕰️ TIMESTAMPS 🕰️0:00 - Introduction 2:01 - What is the crisis of education and how does it relate to other crises of our time? 8:55 - The problem with today's dominant schooling system 35:15 - The future of education — beyond schooling 38:36 - Understanding teacherly authority — organic vs institutionalized 52:51 - Pathways for homeschooling and educational hub networks 1:00:11 - The problem of reducing education to a commodity 1:14:58 - Understanding the global measurement crisis 1:30:15 - Why most of reality can't be measured*Subscribe to my YouTube channel to watch the video versions of the Elevating Consciousness Podcast *Subscribe to the Insighter Substack to get in-depth articles on the theory and practice of human transformation through a post-conventional